PARIS — How do you know when you’ve just seen the best basketball game of your life?

How do you take it all in?

Is it the emotion of the moment? Is it the quality of play or the circumstance involved?

Initially, I didn’t really care for the matchup of Team USA and Serbia in the semi-final game of the men’s Olympic tournament. I wasn’t invested in it emotionally. I just thought, like most people, that this would be easy. Even with the great Nikola Jokic playing for Serbia. That the Americans would do what the Americans usually do in Olympic basketball. Make it obvious.